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...serve in Vietnam, makes closed-door appeals to senators for an exception clause to torture in circumstances of eminent danger.In one of the best-supported congressional revolts in President George W Bush’s five years in office, the Senate voted 90-9 last month in favor of McCain??s ban. But the bill’s fate still depends on negotiations in the Conference Committee of the Senate as well as the House of Representatives. And not only is the House more loyal to the administration, but three of the nine senators who voted against...
...hand, Abrams published his memoir at an opportune moment. It came on the eve of the Supreme Court’s stunning blow to the freedom of the press. And it arrives in stores as politicians who seem unconcerned with the First Amendment—namely Giuliani and McCain??dominate opinion polls...
Scott said the group ruled out many popular candidates. He discounted Jeb Bush’s candidacy because of the country’s resistance to dynasties. He noted that Sen. John McCain??s age makes him an unlikely candidate...
...agenda, stupid. Mike Murphy—the Republican strategist who ran John McCain??s 2000 presidential campaign—is famous for once advising a client to “make a charge and let the other guy spend a million dollars explaining it.” I cannot wait to see the Annenberg School of Communications study that follows this campaign, but I suspect it will show that the president’s political operation dictated the message of the day far more than Kerry’s. Unless bad international or economic news overshadowed the candidates...
...Uncle Sam just now finished his housing rearrangement—he swept a couple Republicans under the rug, moved a lot of nondescript Democrats back into storage, and reclined in his White House. He must have laughed at the C-Span junkies yelling something indecipherable about Sen. John McCain??s (R-Ariz.) express train heading back to Arizona. Yet as amusing as this good old American election drama is, there is something sinister and insidious lurking beneath Uncle Sam’s contented conservative front. It is the same unsettling force belying the pleasant satisfaction of America?...